This article is more than 3 months old The app is updating its privacy policy. Itâs part of an integration thatâs moving in only one direction âA significant proportion of WhatsApp users avoid Facebook itself while still using the chat app it owns.â Photograph: Lionel Bonaventure/AFP/Getty Images âA significant proportion of WhatsApp users avoid Facebook itself while still using the chat app it owns.â Photograph: Lionel Bonaventure/AFP/Getty Images Mon 11 Jan 2021 02.00 EST If you use WhatsApp â as around 30 million British people do â then youâve probably already seen that the chat app is planning some changes.